Ideas
IDEAS is a place for people who like to think. If you value deep conversation and unexpected reveals, this show is for you. From the roots and rise of authoritarianism to near-death experiences to the history of toilets, no topic is off-limits. Hosted by Nahlah Ayed, we’re home to immersive documentaries and fascinating interviews with some of the most consequential thinkers of our time. With an award-winni
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- 1 Annihilation of CasteB.R. Ambedkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Born Criminal: Matilda Jocelyn Gage, Radical SuffragistAngelica Shirley Carpenter · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Caste MattersSuraj Yengde · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 ConfessionsJean-Jacques Rousseau · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Essentials of HindutvaVinayak Damodar Savarkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Hind SwarajMahatma Gandhi · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 History of Woman SuffrageElizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Jocelyn Gage · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 On HashishWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 The Annotated Wizard of OzMichael Patrick Hearn · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Teachers, Administrators, and ParentsHarris Cooper · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The City of GodSaint Augustine · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Discovery of IndiaJawaharlal Nehru · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits LearningEtta Kralovec · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Marvelous Land of OzL. Frank Baum · 1× across 1 episode
- 15 The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical ReflectionsSuraj Yengde · 1× across 1 episode
- 16 The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum · 1× across 1 episode
- 17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 18 Waiting for a VisaB.R. Ambedkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 19 Woman, Church and StateMatilda Jocelyn Gage · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Annihilation of CasteB.R. Ambedkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Born Criminal: Matilda Jocelyn Gage, Radical SuffragistAngelica Shirley Carpenter · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Caste MattersSuraj Yengde · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 ConfessionsJean-Jacques Rousseau · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Essentials of HindutvaVinayak Damodar Savarkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Hind SwarajMahatma Gandhi · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 History of Woman SuffrageElizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Jocelyn Gage · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 On HashishWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 The Annotated Wizard of OzMichael Patrick Hearn · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Teachers, Administrators, and ParentsHarris Cooper · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The City of GodSaint Augustine · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Discovery of IndiaJawaharlal Nehru · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits LearningEtta Kralovec · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Marvelous Land of OzL. Frank Baum · 1× across 1 episode
- 15 The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical ReflectionsSuraj Yengde · 1× across 1 episode
- 16 The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum · 1× across 1 episode
- 17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 18 Waiting for a VisaB.R. Ambedkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 19 Woman, Church and StateMatilda Jocelyn Gage · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Annihilation of CasteB.R. Ambedkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Born Criminal: Matilda Jocelyn Gage, Radical SuffragistAngelica Shirley Carpenter · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Caste MattersSuraj Yengde · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 ConfessionsJean-Jacques Rousseau · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Essentials of HindutvaVinayak Damodar Savarkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Hind SwarajMahatma Gandhi · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 History of Woman SuffrageElizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Jocelyn Gage · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 On HashishWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 The Annotated Wizard of OzMichael Patrick Hearn · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Teachers, Administrators, and ParentsHarris Cooper · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The City of GodSaint Augustine · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Discovery of IndiaJawaharlal Nehru · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits LearningEtta Kralovec · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Marvelous Land of OzL. Frank Baum · 1× across 1 episode
- 15 The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical ReflectionsSuraj Yengde · 1× across 1 episode
- 16 The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum · 1× across 1 episode
- 17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 18 Waiting for a VisaB.R. Ambedkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 19 Woman, Church and StateMatilda Jocelyn Gage · 1× across 1 episode
AI as the new Delphic Oracle?
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The 2,000-year-old travel list to complete before you die
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How the Moon shaped humanity — and defined life on Earth
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Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
Rebecca Boyle
i'm rebecca boyle author of our moon how earth's celestial companion transformed the planet guided evolution and made us who we are ▶ tap to play from here
Somnium
Johannes Kepler
beginning with johannes kepler a contemporary of galileo whose work about the moon somnium is widely credited as the first ever work of science fiction ▶ tap to play from here
Tech billionaires are betting on a coming apocalypse
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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein
the book en time's fascism and the fight for a living world to use its full title makes a big and terrifying claim ▶ tap to play from here
No Logo
Naomi Klein
the author of several books including no logo and the shock doctrine and doppler ganger ▶ tap to play from here
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein
the author of several books including no logo and the shock doctrine and doppler ganger ▶ tap to play from here
The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart
Astra Taylor
astra delivered our twenty twenty three cbc massey lectures if you haven't read it yet her series was called the age of insecurity coming together as things fall apart ▶ tap to play from here
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
Astra Taylor
among her other books are the people's platform and the wonderfully titled democracy may not exist but we'll miss it when it's gone ▶ tap to play from here
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
Astra Taylor
among her other books are the people's platform and the wonderfully titled democracy may not exist but we'll miss it when it's gone ▶ tap to play from here
Bible
Various
and armageddon the idea comes from the bible right from the book of revelation ▶ tap to play from here
Book of Revelation
John of Patmos
from the book of revelation which the religious right takes very literally ▶ tap to play from here
Ur-Fascism
Umberto Eco
umberto echo who grew up under mussolini he wrote this famous essay called ur fascism ▶ tap to play from here
Are Alberta’s separatists guilty of moral treason?
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On Treason: Alberta separatism, foreign interference, and Canada's survival in a revolutionary age
Patrick Lennox
the book is called on treason alberta separatism foreign interference and canada's survival in a revolutionary age ▶ tap to play from here
What draws a new immigrant to Quebec separatism?
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Les Gens du Pays viennent aussi d'ailleurs
Ruba Gazal
she published a memoir last year called les gens du pays viennent aussi d'ailleurs the people of the country also come from elsewhere ▶ tap to play from here
Cascadia has a flag, does it have an identity?
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Bureaumania: A 'Granular' Look at Corporate Red Tape
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The Castle
Daniel Lavelle
this is from kafka's nineteen twenty six book the castle ▶ tap to play from here
In the Penal Colony
Franz Kafka
kafka was writing about this ever since penal colony book that was the first one to actually tackle this problem ▶ tap to play from here
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
the metamorphosis kafka's nineteen fifteen novella ▶ tap to play from here
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
in night o five weber wrote the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism ▶ tap to play from here
The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork
Ben Kafka
he's also the author of the demon of writing powers and failures of paperwork ▶ tap to play from here
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber
and the author of utopia of rules ▶ tap to play from here
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graeber
so i wrote this piece called on the phenomenon of bullshit jobs ▶ tap to play from here
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
as george orwell wrote in down and out in paris and london the there's an instinct in us to create useless work ▶ tap to play from here
The Pale King
David Foster Wallace
it's a crucial observation by the writer david foster wallace in his twenty eleven novel the pale king ▶ tap to play from here
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville
i think it's possible to trace a line back from the pale king to melville's bartleby ▶ tap to play from here
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Sloan Wilson
or the man in the grey flannel suit which are about the new kind of suburban bureaucratic public servants ▶ tap to play from here
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
so in his earlier novel in infinite jest it's the one day at a time mantra of alcoholics anonymous ▶ tap to play from here
Bearing Witness: Canadian Doctors in Gaza
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The inconvenient truth about convenience culture
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The Attention Merchants
Tim Wu
tim wu is a law professor at columbia university and is the author of the age of extraction and the attention merchants ▶ tap to play from here
Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
Siva Vaidhyanathan
he's the author of anti social media how facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy ▶ tap to play from here
Inconvenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround
Joshua Neves and Mark Steinberg
he and his co author mark steinberg wrote and edited a collection of essays titled inconvenience inhabiting the logistical surround ▶ tap to play from here
How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Today's Authoritarians
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Pathways to Power Recruitment and Regime Stability in Pakistan
Maria Mufti
maria mufti is an associate professor of political science at the university of waterloo she's the author of pathways to power recruitment and regime stability in pakistan ▶ tap to play from here
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism
Lukin Ahmedwe
lukin ahmedwe is the distinguished professor of democracy in the political science department at the university of toronto and coauthor of revolution and dictatorship the violent origins of durable authoritarianism ▶ tap to play from here
Grief and the cost of outsourcing feeling
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib
like they can't kill us until they kill us and a little devil in america ▶ tap to play from here
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension in Columbus
Hanif Abdurraqib
hanif abdulbarkiv's most recent book is there's always this year on basketball and ascension ▶ tap to play from here
The Crown Ain't Worth Much
Hanif Abdurraqib
yeah my first book of poems is a book called the crown ain't worth much came out in twenty sixteen ▶ tap to play from here
The Billionaire Age Pt 4 | How democracy can beat back the oligarchs
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The Age of Extraction
Tim Wu
tim mu discusses denmark in his book the age of extraction ▶ tap to play from here
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
adam smith's first big book was the theory of moral sentiments ▶ tap to play from here
How Iqaluit's learning institute gave a generation of Inuit adults a path back to Inuktut
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How Indigenous art makes truth visible
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Art, Truth, and Reconciliation
Gerald McMaster
gerald mcmaster's book art truth and reconciliation gathers indigenous visual responses to canada's residential and day schools ▶ tap to play from here
How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Bashar al-Assad's Syria
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Lamarck was wrong about evolution. Was he right about life?
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On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
thirty years after lamarck's death darwin published on the origin of species ▶ tap to play from here
The Power of Life, the Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jessica Riskin
the book is the power of life the invention of biology and the revolutionary science of jeanbaptiste lamarck ▶ tap to play from here
The Restless Clock
Jessica Riskin
well i came to lamarck really through my previous book which is called the restless clock ▶ tap to play from here
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
take someone like richard dawkins the evolutionary biologist who in the preface to his landmark book the selfish gene wrote we are survival machines ▶ tap to play from here
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The Analytical System of Human Knowledge
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
in his last work the analytical system of human knowledge written in 1820 ▶ tap to play from here
Known for her sharp wit, Dorothy Parker was also an activist
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Enough Rope
Dorothy Parker
lines like that meant she was already well known when her first book was published in 1926 enough rope was the surprising bestseller ▶ tap to play from here
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
Marion Meade
marian mead who died in 2002 wrote the definitive biography of parker which came out in 1987 what fresh hell is this i devoured it and i figured out two things ▶ tap to play from here
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
Michelle Dean
my name is michelle dean and i'm a journalist and a screenwriter and i wrote a book called sharp the women who made an art of having an opinion ▶ tap to play from here
The House at Pooh Corner
A. A. Milne
in her review of the house at pooh corner she wrote and it is that word hummy my darlings that marks the first place at which constant wida flowed up ▶ tap to play from here
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
she wrote a really great parody of this side of paradise fitzgerald's first novel and it it's not the one that has stood the test of time in quite the way that gatsby did ▶ tap to play from here
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
fitzgerald's first novel and it it's not the one that has stood the test of time in quite the way that gatsby did because it was ridiculous ▶ tap to play from here
Making Love Modern: The Intimate Public Worlds of New York's Literary Women
Nina Miller
i'm nina miller the author of making love modern the intimate public worlds of new york's literary women which devotes about a third of its space to dorothy parker ▶ tap to play from here
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
so uh what are you reading the portable dorothy parker she even dropped a portable dorothy parker into a gilmore girls episode ▶ tap to play from here
Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
Gail Crowther
my name's dr gil crowver and i'm a researcher and writer and i'm the author of dorothy parker in hollywood ▶ tap to play from here
What it's like to travel as a blind person
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A Voyage Round the World: Volume 1
James Holman
voyage round the world volume one from 1827 to 1832 by james holman rn frs etcetera etc ▶ tap to play from here
Connecting Dots: A Blind Life
Joshua A. Miele with Wendell Jamieson
joshua mealy's memoir is called connecting dots a blind life ▶ tap to play from here
Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts: Deaf and Disabled Artists Raise the Curtain on Cripping the Stage
Alex Bulmer and Debbie Patterson
alex bulmer's play perceptual archaeology is published in her coedited collection rebellious bodies and radical acts ▶ tap to play from here
How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Augusto Pinochet's Chile
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The Bible
Various Authors - Compiled by Mark T
and so and there's these police walking along the procession just reading verses from the bible to report on these people ▶ tap to play from here
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